Markets — Digital Assets
Institutional infrastructure for digital markets.
Spot crypto, perpetuals, futures and options. Institutional custody, OTC block trading and structured products for professional investors.
Markets — Digital Assets
Digital asset markets have matured from retail speculation to institutional infrastructure. Our digital assets desk provides professional-grade execution, custody and risk management for funds, family offices and corporate treasuries allocating to the asset class.
We do not custody client assets on exchange. All digital asset holdings are held in institutional-grade cold storage with multi-signature authorisation and $500m insurance coverage. OTC block trading is available for orders above $1m notional with same-day settlement.
Custody
Custody that doesn't cut corners.
Custody is where most brokerages make their first compromise. We didn't.
Some brokerages hold client digital assets on exchange — commingled, rehypothecated, and exposed to the operational and counterparty risk of the venue itself. When an exchange fails, those assets are not ring-fenced. They are part of the estate. Clients become unsecured creditors. The industry has demonstrated this outcome more than once.
Roaches operates a segregated, off-exchange custody model. Client assets are held in dedicated cold storage wallets — never pooled, never lent, never pledged. Multi-signature authorisation requires independent key holders for every withdrawal. There is no single point of failure because we designed the architecture to have none.
Our custody infrastructure is insured to $500m per client. Settlement is T+0 for OTC block trades above $1m notional. Sub-custody arrangements are disclosed in full. There are no hidden rehypothecation clauses in our client agreements because there is no rehypothecation.
Segregated cold storage
Each client's digital assets are held in dedicated wallets. No commingling. No pooling. Your assets are yours, not a liability on our balance sheet.
Multi-signature authorisation
Every withdrawal requires independent key holder approval. No single employee, system or counterparty can move client assets unilaterally.
$500m insurance coverage
Institutional-grade insurance per client. Not a blanket policy shared across the book — per client coverage with named limits.
Zero rehypothecation
We do not lend, pledge or rehypothecate client digital assets. Ever. This is not a marketing claim — it is a contractual obligation in every client agreement.
Off-exchange settlement
OTC block trades settle directly between counterparties. Client assets never transit through exchange infrastructure during settlement.
Full sub-custody disclosure
We disclose every sub-custodian arrangement in full. No opacity. No undisclosed third-party exposure. You know exactly where your assets are at all times.
Regulatory standing
Regulated before it was required.
Digital asset regulation is still maturing. Some operators treat that gap as an opportunity — a window to operate without the oversight that applies to every other asset class. We treat it as a reason to be ahead of it.
Roaches holds FCA cryptoasset registration and has implemented full MiCA compliance ahead of enforcement. Our AML and KYC programme applies to every digital asset client without exception — the same standard we apply to equities, FX, and listed derivatives. There is no lighter-touch onboarding for crypto because we do not believe lighter-touch onboarding is appropriate for institutional clients.
FATF Travel Rule compliance is implemented across all digital asset flows. Transaction monitoring runs in real time. Suspicious activity reporting is handled through the same infrastructure as our traditional asset classes. We do not treat digital assets as a separate compliance category because our clients do not treat them as a separate risk category.
UK Financial Conduct Authority cryptoasset business registration. Verifiable on the FCA register.
EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation — full compliance framework implemented ahead of enforcement deadline.
Full implementation of FATF guidance on virtual assets across all digital asset transaction flows.
Institutional-standard anti-money laundering and know-your-customer programme. No exceptions for digital asset clients.